The addition of these schools will give a major boost to realize the vision of the mission to ‘Cultivate one million children in India as the innovators of tomorrow’.

With this announcement, AIM has selected 2441 schools across India to establish ATLs to date since it began its operations over a year ago.

“As part of our mission to ‘Transform India into an Innovative Country’ the active engagement of ATLs is extremely important and far reaching in its implications,” said mission director, ATL, R. Ramanan.

ATLs are innovation play workspaces for students between Grade VI to Grade XII, stimulating innovations combining science and technology.

These open-ended innovation workspaces equipped with state of the art technologies like 3D printers, robotics, sensor technology kits, Internet of Things (IoT), miniaturized electronics enable the students to learn and solve local community problems using emerging technologies.

Students are encouraged to explore and experience design thinking and innovation, using a do-it-yourself approach, and develop innovative solutions to India’s social, community or economic problems.